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Emmett Till was born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois and was killed August 28, 1955 in Money, Mississippi at the age of 14. He suffered serious consequences for telling a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, “Bye Baby” leaving out of a local corner store. Several days later Emmett was taken from his home by Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, they beat and mutilated him before shooting him and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Till’s body was

African Americans were freed from slavery in 1865 and were granted civil rights in 1875. However, In the 1950s and 60s African Americans were restricted under Jim Crow laws, these laws segregated African Americans into “Separate but Equal” facilities and prohibited them from doing things we do normally today. On August 28th, 1955 a young African American boy was kidnapped, tortured and murdered for allegedly whistling at a Caucasian store owner. This young boy was known as Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till. Emmett Till’s murder outraged the African American community and aided the push for desegregation and equality amongst all Americans regardless of race on a national level.

Emmett Till 's death impudent the civil rights movement by showing the world how cruel people were to African americans. Which caused people to fight for a change. Emmett Till was born in 1941 in Chicago Illinois. Till grew up in a black middle class neighborhood. His cousins always called him Bobo.

Emmett Till was murdered because of false accusations and for being a black boy in the 1950’s. Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago. He grew up in a middle-class black neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. Mamie till raised Emmett as a single mother.

Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. Emmett was killed because a white woman stated Emmett whistled at her and behaving inappropriately. The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 brought local and global attention to the racial violence and injustice in Mississippi. The brutal lynching of an Emmett helped shape the civil-rights movement and became the first Black Lives Matter case. Emmett's murder is important because it inspired activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement.

Emmett was left mutilated and horrendous looking for all of the world to see when his mother decided to have an open-coffin funeral. News of Emmett’s story spread through the nation like a forest fire, outraging and devastating people all over, saying how brutal the murder was, or how it wasn’t brutal enough. Emmett’s trial took place less than 2 weeks after he’d been killed, and somehow his trial was more unfair than his death. During trial, Mr. Breland harassed Till’s Uncle Mose, “And yet you could see clearly, clearly enough to accuse to white men of murder, to claim that the men on your porch were Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam over there… No problem with white folks, yet there you sit accusing two of our upstanding white citizens of barging into your home in the middle of the night, pointing a gun and a flashlight in your face, and hauling off your nephew”(170/171). Even though Bryant and Milam both admitted to kidnapping Emmett, the possibility of the two men not even being there to take Emmett is beyond irrational, even when both men stated their names at Moses 's door.

The Murder of Emmett Till “What else could I do, he thought he was as good as any white man.” This quote by J.W. Milan, one of Emmett Till’s killers, shows how deeply ingrained racism was in the 1960’s. Emmett Till was brutally murdered at only fourteen. His heinous crime that justifies being murdered is flirting with a white woman. Emmett Till’s murder was the spark that set of the roaring fire of the civil rights movement, in the south.

he young 14 yr old boy Emmett Till was murdered on August 28, 1955. He allegedly walked into a store and whistle at a white woman while her brother in law and husband were there with her. The boy was dared to go inside this store and whistle at her. Emmett till was from the north you were able to do that from where he came from. Emmett thought it would be all fun and games but the 2 men did not take it lightly.

Emmett Till was a loving, fun fourteen year old boy who grew up on the Southside of Chicago. During 1955, classrooms were segregated yet Till found a way to cope with the changes that was happening in the world. Looking forward to a visit with his cousins, Emmett was ecstatic and was not prepared for the level of segregation that would occur in Money, Mississippi when he arrived. Emmett was a big prankster, but his mother reminded him of his race and the differences that it caused. When Till arrived in Money, he joined in with his family and visited a local neighborhood store for a quick beverage.

Research Assignment #3 Emmett Till: The murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement, is an interesting account of a brutal murder in Money Mississippi in 1955. The author compiled several documents that had been previously unavailable to the public, interviews with family members, and newspaper articles to tell the story of a fourteen year old African American boys life and death. Emmett Till was raised by a single mother and his grandmother in Chicago.1 The author gives a very detailed account of not only Emmetts short life but of his mothers life shortlyt before Emmetts birth until after his death. Emmett and his mother were victims of racial prejuidices and voilence.

Emmett Till harassed one of the defendant’s wives at the store in Money, Mississippi. In the testimony of J.W.’s wife Juanita Milam, she said that a black teenager grabbed Carolyn by the waist and made offensive suggestions. When the teen was scared off by the gun Carolyn drew, he left the store by whistling and yelling “Bye, baby.” When Till’s cousin Curtis Jones was questioned about the actions of Emmett, he refused to accept the fact that his cousin would do such a thing and said that he only went in the store to get her number. No person would pull a gun out on someone just because they asked for their number.

Emmett Till brutally murdered for wolf whistling at a white women. In the early morning hours of August 28, 1995, fourteen year old Emmett Till. Visiting from Chicago, was rousted from his bed in his uncle's Mississippi shack. By two white men in search of vengeance. His crime was for flirting with a white women.

On the day of August 24, 1955, 14 year old Emmett Till was on vacation to Money, Mississippi when he was murdered because he was flirting with a white woman. He was killed by the woman’s husband and her brother. The murderers made him carry a 75 pound cotton gin to the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where he was forced to take off his clothes, and was beaten to death, had an eye gouged out, shot in the head, and then tied to the cotton gin with barbed wire. He was then thrown into the river to die. Till grew up in a working class neighborhood south of Chicago, and he went to a segregated school, but he wasn’t ready for the segregation he would face in Mississippi.

Emmett Till, a 14 year old African American boy who was brutally murdered by racists. He was a boy from Chicago who went to Money, Mississippi to visit family (source 1). Emmett had grown up in the North and his mother was Mamie Till Mobley. He was born July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. When Emmett was 5, he had polio.

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in cold blood on August 28, 1955, after he was accused of flirting with a white married proprietor of a small grocery store. What Till was accused of violating the code of conduct for an African American male in the south. After the event Roy Bryant, husband of the woman from the grocery store, and J.W. Milam, his half-brother, kidnapped Emmett Till from his home. The fourteen-year-old was beaten, maimed, and shot him in the head before drowning his body in the nearby river.